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Vikkie vs Viktoria

American parents have registered 2,659 Viktorias since 1880, against 62 Vikkies. Viktoria is still ahead, with 59 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vikkie against Viktoria, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vikkie Viktoria

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 67 years in which either name was published, Viktoria for 60 years and Vikkie for 7 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Vikkie Viktoria
Total US births 622,659
Most in one year 12113
Babies in 2025 under 559
Estimated living today 502,600
Median age today 6716
Peak year 19482015
Best rank 2,974th girls1,831st girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,859th
First recorded 19481950
Girls / boys 62 / 02,659 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Vikkies alive today are over 67; half the Viktorias are over 16. That is 51 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Vikkie and Viktoria.